Barbara Herrnstein Smith is a literary critic and theorist. She is Braxton Craven Professor of Comparative Literature and English and director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science and Cultural Theory at Duke University. She is also Distinguished Professor of English at Brown University. Smith's best-known work is Contingencies of Value: Alternative Perspectives for Critical Theory. Other works include Poetic Closure: A Study of How Poems End, Belief and Resistance: Dynamics of Contemporary Intellectual Controversy, and an edition of Shakespeare's sonnets; she has published numerous books and articles on language, literature, and critical theory. Smith has also taught at Bennington College and the University of Pennsylvania, and she was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford and at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. She was elected president of the Modern Language Association in 1988.
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